[PLUG] Configuring GRUB

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

Rich>   When I first installed RH 4.1 I was triple-booting with LILO:
Rich> linux, PC-DOS/7 and win95. I had no problems understanding LILO,
Rich> swapping mbrs between drives as the Microsoft and IBM OSes
Rich> needed to be loaded, and so on.  GRUB is functionally similar,
Rich> but tries too hard -- in my case -- to help.  It assumed that I
Rich> want to boot DOS because it found that /dev/hda10 was formatted
Rich> vfat on a mount point called "/dos7". If it had not made that
Rich> assumption I would have been happier.

Just to clarify, I do not think GRUB made that assumption.  I think
RH's packaging of GRUB made that assumption.  When I installed GRUB
(both on Debian and from source) I didn't find it making any
assumptions.  I wrote the menu.lst file by hand, which wasn't too
difficult with 30 minutes of reading about how GRUB works and some
experimenting from the very handy interactive CLI that GRUB provides.
So please do _not_ fault GRUB for the sins of the packager.


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